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Stromasys, Alpha and VAX Virtualization

Posted on September 6, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

One of the really cool VMworld finds I made this year has to be Stromasys. They do hardware virtualization of various old hardware platforms including the VAX, DEC Alpha, and other OpenVMS and HP 3000 type stuff. Here is a…

Diskeeper V-locity 2 effects on Block Level Change

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Justin Paul | 5 Comments

The product that I’m reviewing in this article is Diskeeper’s V-locity 2 product, which can be found here. This will not be a post about how much faster a fragment free drive will make your VM, instead this is about…

HP P2000 G3 SAS SAN

Posted on June 11, 2011 by Justin Paul | 46 Comments

I’ve done several posts about the P2000 series of SAN’s from HP, but all of the posts had to do with the iSCSI or Fiber Channel models. This post is to catch you up on the SAS model and what…

EMC VNXe 3100: My First Look

Posted on June 6, 2011 by Justin Paul | 26 Comments

Last week I unboxed my first EMC VNXe 3100 SAN for a client. At first glance the VNXe looks much like the Clariion AX4, the only thing that is different (physically) is the front bezel and the interfaces on the…

Remote Desktop Connection Manager

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Justin Paul | 8 Comments

This morning while wasting some time before the baby’s doctor appointment I was browsing around on Microsoft Connect. I had never heard of it before and thought I would see what was all available on it. For those of you…

ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 4

Posted on May 10, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

So far we have talked about what the ExaGrid is, what it does, and how to setup Veeam Backups so they play nice together. But what does it really get you? … That’s what this post is going to cover.…

ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 3

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Justin Paul | 0 Comments

As promised here is the third part of the ExaGrid/Veeam Backup series. This post will show you step by step the best practices for using Veeam with your ExaGrid backup appliance. If you have the time and like reading the…

ExaGrid with Veeam Backup Part 2

Posted on April 26, 2011 by Justin Paul | 3 Comments

So if Veeam = Good, then Veeam + ExaGrid = Better!, I explained why in the first part of this post series here. Now let’s talk about why. So let’s say you bought an ExaGrid, now we have to set…

Wyse P20 Review with VMware View 4.6

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Justin Paul | 7 Comments

I must say that I am very bias about this terminal, I love this thing. The first time I worked with this terminal was at VMWorld 2010, they were the terminal that VMware was using for their lab environment. Then…

HP t5745 ThinPro Terminal Review

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Justin Paul | 1 Comment

While at the office today I saw a new HP box sitting on the bench beside of mine and after taking a look at the label I found that it was a t5745 terminal with the HP ThinPro OS. I…